“You don’t ask or wish others living on earth to pray for you? Do you pray for others?
If you believe the saints are alive in heaven, why not ask them to add to these prayers?”
With all respect to you.. and I’m sorry to butt into this conversation - but isn’t JESUS our ‘mediator’ between us and God the Father? He did instruct us to pray for one another, but -to HIM.
The ‘saints’ in heaven are in the spiritual realm. We only have access to that through Jesus Himself. I don’t see a point in the notion of going to any others in order to get through to Jesus when He told us to go directly through Him.
Bless you bro!
The ‘saints’ in heaven are in the spiritual realm.Nope; everyone of them are lying in the ground, awaiting the Last Trump!
Psalm 13:3
Look on me and answer, Lord my God. Give light to my eyes, or I will sleep in death,
Psalm 90:5
Yet you sweep people away in the sleep of death— they are like the new grass of the morning:
Daniel 12:2
Multitudes who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake: some to everlasting life, others to shame and everlasting contempt.
John 11:12-13
His disciples replied, “Lord, if he sleeps, he will get better.”
Jesus had been speaking of his death, but his disciples thought he meant natural sleep.
1 Corinthians 15:51-52
Listen, I tell you a mystery:
We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed—in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet.
For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed.
Ephesians 5:14
This is why it is said: “Wake up, sleeper, rise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.”
1 Thessalonians 4:13
Brothers and sisters, we do not want you to be uninformed about those who sleep in death, so that you do not grieve like the rest of mankind, who have no hope.